Yes, *I* use DSC quite a bit. In fact, pretty much daily. But as upi state - *** For my server builds. ***
This broke Windows 10 version 1607. I run it at home, and at work on a couple of test desktops, but i know of no instances of 1607 under our SCCM - for that matter, we only have about a 5% deploy of Windows 10.
So yes, this slipped through, but I think the actual exposure will be quite small. Lots of crowds and torches on slashdot, but this is probably a very small blip.
In fact, by virtue of how Fast Track gets deployed I don't think I'd ever see this issue -
Win10 install from SCCM or ISO
Apply DSC config as part of the build or part of a configuration script
manually enable fast track
wait for MS to update the box to fast track
get the new build
finally get the bad patch
If I were MS, I'd look at creating a better patch/update exposure matrix - the Fast Track for Insider Updates includes all sorts of telemetry, and I would imagine that they could look at a patch and compare the functionality to the actual use telemetry - "This patch updates DSC. DSC has been used by 1% of all fast track users over the past 10 days. Risk of patch++"
Wow - a thoughtful and logical comment on why Windows 10 is actually interesting.
My biggest addition to this is the boot time - Win10 boots in under 5 seconds on my SSD laptop, compared with 15-20 on my desktop with a high end Seagate hybrid 7200 (I know, bad purchase. If I could have waited another year...) My desktop boots up with a couple of active HyperV instances (Plex Server, Ubuntu, FreeBSD), so its not really usable for an other couple of minutes, but that's my own issue.
The Windows 10 interface is an interesting combination of the old and new - all your programs are immediately available like 7, but you have the live tile pane for all the new "chatty" applications - weather, news, recipes, Facebook, etc. all with their own ADHD inspired "Hey! Click me!" look. I'm running insider/fast on one of my boxes and the interface changes that are coming for the summer release are quite good. I've got tile sections for Office, Development, Admin tools and other crap - which is sort of back to the old Program Manager Groups from Win3.1:-)
Updates, well, its windows so it will do that. I've only had issues when I clicked the "do it now" button, then realized my wife was watching something off the Plex server.
Other than a couple of minor issues, it just works.
Yes, but if the lawyers tell Intel that it's employees cannot contribute to the Kernel *as a work requirement* anymore, what does that do to the Kernel?
So I'm waiting for someone at a major corporation that does substantial open source development to file a hostile work environment suit against their company if they are required to do kernel submissions. That would *quickly* result in a change in attitude if a major contributor decided that it was potentially litigiously expensive to contribute.
And I'm talking Intel, IBM, RedHat, or even Google, all with massive presence in the US, where this type of behavior would be considered completely unacceptable.
I'm sorry, this is like working for a vulgar cousin or uncle. Fine for small business and family shops, completely unacceptable outside of that type of environment.
This quote from the end of the article says it all:
"Lee Goldstein, a clinical instructor in the Harvard Law School legal aid bureau, said that the issue of whether the students were legally qualified to sue, known as standing, could be fatal to the students’ suit, as it was to the earlier suit brought by Mr. Bonifaz and others."
"could be" is a way of putting it politely.
"could be" is a way for lawyers to charge more hours.
Seriously? The three hours of Saturday morning soccer that I'm forced to drag my three kids to killed any sort of opportunity for any TV watching on a Saturday.
I'd start with Visual Studio Online (http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-online-overview-vs) - five user free basic version. Get your coding skills up to date, then work on a new rig.
With the number pad, it feels like I'm typing with my whole body slightly twisted to the left - to the point that I much prefer to use my laptop in the docking station.
This is all being driven by a 2010 US Law requiring companies to track and disclose where they acquire gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten. These are primarily mined in the Congo region, and are believed to be run by warlords using the public as basically slave labor.
While a good in principle law, it doesn't currently list "bad" suppliers, and really doesn't do anything but make companies track their suppliers. No penalty for buying from the worst of the worst, you just have to report it. And the "worst of the worst"? They're not stupid - they're reverting to well thought out money laundering techniques to hide their product behind "clean" companies.
So this ends up being another needless law that requires companies to to extensive work reporting something that the bad guys have already found a way around.
As far as how my product (Visual Studio LightSwitch) is impacted directly; as part of our release process we run some tooling that makes sure our code isn't calling APIs its not supposed to be calling.
And then lied about it. That's the kicker. Of the five that were caught.one was given a warning, one was banned for the first four AC races, and three were banned from this AC.
Further, three of the offenders are being sent to their national sailing organization with a recommendation of no further action, but two of them are being sent back for further punishment with the declaration of lying and knowingly modifying the boats. Because each of these sailors sails under the international racing rules, and are being charged with "[a] gross breach of a rule and good sportsmanship" they are going to get the hammer. There is precedence in sailing (sorry, no linkage) that these two guys could be banned from competing for years. And this is *all* racing, from the AC and Olympics and club beer can racing. This is the equivalent of A-Rod being told he can't play ball anywhere in the world, including his church softball league. The closest analogy is the banning for life of the Chicago Black Sox.
So don't think this is a trivial situation, these guys will probably never race professionally ever again in their lives.
I got my wife one of these http://www.zomm.com/ for her phone and it works great - saved her phone at least 3 or 4 times, but it does go off occasionally for non-losses. Its a bluetooth device that when activated, alarms when the bluetooth disconnects with some error correction for occasional disconnects. You could attach it to your luggage and it would alarm if the luggage was beyond range. Its small enough that it wouldn't attract attention, and would certainly work. I'd make sure it was securely attached i.e. use a strong key ring or clip.
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PureText FTW! https://stevemiller.net/purete...
Certainly not the case for native American Indians: https://indiancountrymedianetw...
A pregnancy is a hell of a side effect of a birth control method.
First of all, best of luck - I do remember missing a *lot* of 2001-2009 with our 3 kids up until the youngest was 2ish.
When they are 3 and on it's a complete joy ride - lots of run watching them discover the world.
Then they become teenagers.
I now know why hard liquor was invented.
Yes, *I* use DSC quite a bit. In fact, pretty much daily. But as upi state - *** For my server builds. ***
This broke Windows 10 version 1607. I run it at home, and at work on a couple of test desktops, but i know of no instances of 1607 under our SCCM - for that matter, we only have about a 5% deploy of Windows 10.
So yes, this slipped through, but I think the actual exposure will be quite small. Lots of crowds and torches on slashdot, but this is probably a very small blip.
In fact, by virtue of how Fast Track gets deployed I don't think I'd ever see this issue -
Win10 install from SCCM or ISO
Apply DSC config as part of the build or part of a configuration script
manually enable fast track
wait for MS to update the box to fast track
get the new build
finally get the bad patch
If I were MS, I'd look at creating a better patch/update exposure matrix - the Fast Track for Insider Updates includes all sorts of telemetry, and I would imagine that they could look at a patch and compare the functionality to the actual use telemetry - "This patch updates DSC. DSC has been used by 1% of all fast track users over the past 10 days. Risk of patch++"
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"SeparateProcess"=dword:00000001
FTW
Completely agree - the Ecobee is everything the Nest claims to be and better.
Wow - a thoughtful and logical comment on why Windows 10 is actually interesting.
:-)
My biggest addition to this is the boot time - Win10 boots in under 5 seconds on my SSD laptop, compared with 15-20 on my desktop with a high end Seagate hybrid 7200 (I know, bad purchase. If I could have waited another year...) My desktop boots up with a couple of active HyperV instances (Plex Server, Ubuntu, FreeBSD), so its not really usable for an other couple of minutes, but that's my own issue.
The Windows 10 interface is an interesting combination of the old and new - all your programs are immediately available like 7, but you have the live tile pane for all the new "chatty" applications - weather, news, recipes, Facebook, etc. all with their own ADHD inspired "Hey! Click me!" look. I'm running insider/fast on one of my boxes and the interface changes that are coming for the summer release are quite good. I've got tile sections for Office, Development, Admin tools and other crap - which is sort of back to the old Program Manager Groups from Win3.1
Updates, well, its windows so it will do that. I've only had issues when I clicked the "do it now" button, then realized my wife was watching something off the Plex server.
Other than a couple of minor issues, it just works.
Yes, but if the lawyers tell Intel that it's employees cannot contribute to the Kernel *as a work requirement* anymore, what does that do to the Kernel?
So I'm waiting for someone at a major corporation that does substantial open source development to file a hostile work environment suit against their company if they are required to do kernel submissions. That would *quickly* result in a change in attitude if a major contributor decided that it was potentially litigiously expensive to contribute.
And I'm talking Intel, IBM, RedHat, or even Google, all with massive presence in the US, where this type of behavior would be considered completely unacceptable.
I'm sorry, this is like working for a vulgar cousin or uncle. Fine for small business and family shops, completely unacceptable outside of that type of environment.
My understanding is that MS is working to integrate powershell based package manager tools like https://chocolatey.org/ with Powershell 5.0.
This quote from the end of the article says it all:
"Lee Goldstein, a clinical instructor in the Harvard Law School legal aid bureau, said that the issue of whether the students were legally qualified to sue, known as standing, could be fatal to the students’ suit, as it was to the earlier suit brought by Mr. Bonifaz and others."
"could be" is a way of putting it politely.
"could be" is a way for lawyers to charge more hours.
I go around saying "Microsoft limits filenames to a ridiculous 8.sqrt(3) format."
Does that make my hatred irrational?
It would if it were sqrt( -3)
Seriously? The three hours of Saturday morning soccer that I'm forced to drag my three kids to killed any sort of opportunity for any TV watching on a Saturday.
[...] bottle of Corona than to cool a bottle of brew-from-sewer.
Um, isn't that the same thing?
No, but working on it:
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/research...
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/research...
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/research...
They could give out USB sticks instead of 3 1/2" floppies...
I'd start with Visual Studio Online (http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-online-overview-vs) - five user free basic version. Get your coding skills up to date, then work on a new rig.
Agreed!!!!
With the number pad, it feels like I'm typing with my whole body slightly twisted to the left - to the point that I much prefer to use my laptop in the docking station.
Kind of pointless...
This is all being driven by a 2010 US Law requiring companies to track and disclose where they acquire gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten. These are primarily mined in the Congo region, and are believed to be run by warlords using the public as basically slave labor.
While a good in principle law, it doesn't currently list "bad" suppliers, and really doesn't do anything but make companies track their suppliers. No penalty for buying from the worst of the worst, you just have to report it. And the "worst of the worst"? They're not stupid - they're reverting to well thought out money laundering techniques to hide their product behind "clean" companies.
So this ends up being another needless law that requires companies to to extensive work reporting something that the bad guys have already found a way around.
...
As far as how my product (Visual Studio LightSwitch) is impacted directly; as part of our release process we run some tooling that makes sure our code isn't calling APIs its not supposed to be calling.
Excellent product. Keep up the good work.
And then lied about it. That's the kicker. Of the five that were caught.one was given a warning, one was banned for the first four AC races, and three were banned from this AC.
Further, three of the offenders are being sent to their national sailing organization with a recommendation of no further action, but two of them are being sent back for further punishment with the declaration of lying and knowingly modifying the boats. Because each of these sailors sails under the international racing rules, and are being charged with "[a] gross breach of a rule and good sportsmanship" they are going to get the hammer. There is precedence in sailing (sorry, no linkage) that these two guys could be banned from competing for years. And this is *all* racing, from the AC and Olympics and club beer can racing. This is the equivalent of A-Rod being told he can't play ball anywhere in the world, including his church softball league. The closest analogy is the banning for life of the Chicago Black Sox.
So don't think this is a trivial situation, these guys will probably never race professionally ever again in their lives.
You forgot this:
© 2001 Portable Applications Standards Committee, IEEE Computer Society
I got my wife one of these http://www.zomm.com/ for her phone and it works great - saved her phone at least 3 or 4 times, but it does go off occasionally for non-losses. Its a bluetooth device that when activated, alarms when the bluetooth disconnects with some error correction for occasional disconnects. You could attach it to your luggage and it would alarm if the luggage was beyond range. Its small enough that it wouldn't attract attention, and would certainly work. I'd make sure it was securely attached i.e. use a strong key ring or clip.
If it's an OLED display, black backgrounds save on battery...